Play Station 2

Play Station 2 is video game consoles is the second issued by the Sony PlayStation. The development was first announced in April 1999 and thrown to the market first time on 4 March 2000 in Japan. As in the United States, this console was first marketed on 26 October 2000. In the first year of circulation PlayStation 2, console sales experience is not surprising that compared to PlayStation consoles, but the long run this successfully rule the console market with record sales of 90 million units

Technical Specifications

• Emotion Engine CPU : 128-bit with the speed of 294 MHz (the next version of 299 MHz speed) with a 10.5 million transistor.
• Memory: 32 MB or direct RDRAM (a desktop computer can also use this type of memory).
• Memory Bandwidth: 3.2 GB per second.
• Main Procesor : core MIPS R5900 CPU, 64-bit.
• Parlormaid Processor: FPU (1 Multiply Accumulator Floating Point, Floating Point Divider 1).
• Unit vectors: VU0 and VU1 (9 Multiply Accumulator Floating Point, Floating Point Divider 1), 128-bit.
• Floating Point: 6.2 GFLOPS (floating point 32-bit single).
• 3D CG geometrik Transformation: 66 million polygon per second (1).
• Dekoder excellent image: MPEG-2.
• Interconnection processor I / O: Relationships with remote connection through the serial, DMA controller to move the bulk.
• Cache memory: 16 KB command, data, 8 KB +16 KB.
• Graphic: chart speed 147 MHz.
• DRAM bus Bandwidth: 47 GB per second.
• DRAM bus width: 2560-bit (a combination of three independent buses: 1024-bit to write, for 1024-bit read, 512-bit for read / write).
• Setting Pixels: Buffer RGB: Alpha: Z (24:8, 15:1 for RGB, Z buffer 16, 24, or 32-bit).
• Maximum Number of Polygon: 75 million polygon per second (1).
• Relations directly to: Main CPU and VU1.
• Sound: SPU1 and SPU2 (SPU1 with the same CPU).
• Many voice: Hardware ADPCM channel 48 on channel SPU2 added software.
• Limitation of frequency: 44.1 kHz or 48 kHz (selectable).
• The core CPU: Original PlayStation CPU (MIPS R3000A-speed 33.8688 MHz or 37.5 MHz).
• Separate Bus: 32-Bit.
• Connection to: SPU controller and CD / DVD.
• The outside: 2 connection control means of PlayStation video games (for PS1-speed 250KHz and 500KHz for PS2), 2 memory card slot that uses a system MagicGate encryption (250KHz for PS1 cards, reach 1-2MHz for PS2 cards), the holder kandar (DEV9 PCMCIA or early in the console version), the holder for the network adapter, modem and kandar hard drive, 2 FireWire (IEEE 1394), 2 connection infra red remote control, and 2 USB 1.1 connection with a controller in accordance with the OHCI.
• Media: DVD-ROM (also compatible with CD-ROM) with copyright protection, with a 4,7-8,5 GB.